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GLTF VIEWER PC

I’d say that (for me) this is very much at the “Augmented Reality” end of the spectrum in that while the model here might look like it’s sitting on my monitor, I can actually place it in mid-air so I’m not sure that it’s really identifying planes for the model to sit on. You can also use this application to “insert” the model into the real-world via a “Mixed Reality” mode as below The application lets you easily load up model files from the file system or from the Remix3D site

GLTF VIEWER PC

If you run up the 3D Viewer on a PC then you get an app which runs in a Window and which displays a 3D model with a whole range of options including being able to control how the model is rendered, interacting with animations, changing the lighting and so on Now, knowing that there’s an application on my PC called “3D Viewer” and knowing that there’s one on my HoloLens called “3D Viewer” might lead me to believe that they are the same application with same set of capabilities and so I might just expect to be able to move to the HoloLens, run the Mixed Reality Viewer application and open the same model there. Which tells me that this model is 68,000 polygons so it’s not a tiny model but it’s not a particularly big one either and I’d expect that it would display fine on a mobile device which might not be the case if it was 10x or 100x times as big.

GLTF VIEWER WINDOWS 10

Now, I can open that model in Paint3D or 3D Viewer, both of which are free and built-in on Windows 10 and I can get a view something like this one I won’t use the actual models in this blog post so let’s assume that it was this model from Remix3D Having passed on this great advice, I thought I’d better try it out myself and, like much of my best advice, it didn’t actually work “No problem, open up the files in 3D Viewer on the PC, have a look at them and then transfer them over to HoloLens and view them in 3D Viewer there” I have no details on HoloLens other than what is on the public web and so what I post here is just from my own experience experimenting with pieces that are publicly available and you should always check out the official developer site for the product documentation.Ī quick note – I’m still not sure whether I should bring this blog back to life having paused it but I had a number of things running around in my head that are easier if written down and so that’s what I’ve done Viewing 3D Files on a HoloLensĪ few weeks ago, a colleague came to me with 2 3D models packaged in files and said “I just want to show these 2 models to a customer on a HoloLens”. NB: The usual blog disclaimer for this site applies to posts around HoloLens.

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